Throne of the Warlord

Chapter 71 Action and Mentor's Aid
"Well"

Li Qing fell into deep thought.

"This method seems to be good."

"No, this method is better."

The previous idea requires too much manpower and material resources, and it is not easy to cut off water and food for a city. Not to mention cutting off water, it is very difficult to cut off food alone.

The Snake City is located at the junction of two rivers, and there are two transportation methods, land and water, and it is very troublesome to completely cut it off.

In addition, it must be confirmed that the snake people's city does not store much grain. If there is enough grain, this method will not work.

Moreover, the Mage Tower has a teleportation function. Although teleporting a large amount of goods consumes a lot of energy, as long as it can teleport, the siege plan will have to be extended for several months.

Relatively speaking, the first kind of uncertainty is too large.

"Is there any detailed operation?"

"Have."

Xie Zhu pulled himself together and said in a deep voice:
"In terms of frontal combat capabilities, we are very strong. The leather equipment prepared by Your Excellency is very powerful. Equipped with excellent shields and weapons, the comprehensive strength can defeat nearly ten thousand defenders in a snake city. Push it."

"The only difficulty lies in the mage tower where the archmage sits. As long as one of the two can be solved, this snake city is a dish on our chopping board."

"In my vision, I can choose a town next to the snake city as the target to launch an attack."

Speaking of which, Xie Zhu took out a map and put it in front of everyone, pointing to a town near the river in the south of the snake city, and said:
"What I'm thinking of is this town, which is close to us and completely within the teleportation range of the snake-man city. Learn from Mo Wenxi's lesson and divide the troops into two parts. Only about [-] troops will be dispatched to attack the town, and the other troops will hide."

"This scale can put pressure on the snake city, but it won't make the snake city vigilant."

"As long as the Snake Town Archmage mobilizes troops to support us, we will take action immediately and keep the Snake Archmage behind."

"As long as the Snakeman Archmage can be left behind, the plan will be considered a success."

"Well"

"The idea is fine, you can try it."

Li Qing pondered for a moment and said to them:
"You can discuss the details again, I'll go over and do some reconnaissance first."

Li Qing made a decision on this and decided on the battle plan.

Then he announced the end of the meeting, and he left the castle alone on the giant eagle and flew to the north.

Flying in the air, Li Qing thought about Xie Zhu's idea carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more feasible it became.

With his current strength, as long as the snake man archmage dares to come out, there is a possibility of successful sniping.

And this is a plan that kills two birds with one stone. Even if it doesn't succeed, if the Snakeman Archmage is allowed to escape, the Snakeman town will not be able to escape. It is absolutely possible to attack the Snakeman town by the way and gain a lot of benefits.

Destroying the snake town before got a lot of good things.

There are two snake-man towns around this snake-man city. If you really have to do nothing, the harvest of destroying the two snake-man towns is not bad.

And this is also a new idea. After destroying these two snake-man towns, the same method can be used to destroy the towns of other great nobles and lords in the snake-man kingdom.

There are still many such towns, and there are many in total.

It may not be as good as directly destroying the city and the mage tower in terms of quality, but if he can destroy seven or eight of them, it will be enough to increase his strength by a large amount.

Others can't do this because most of the apprentices don't have the strength to confront an extraordinary archmage head-on, even the three under the name of the four-star mentor Lu Jun.

They don't have a five-star hero whose strength has reached the fifth level and has the ability to go up to a higher level to directly confront the superpowers.

For an extraordinary great mage, there is no strong person of the same level to resist, and anyone lower than his own level is a dish, so he is not afraid of coming, and he can escape at any time if he cannot be beaten.

Of course, those three who were lucky enough to pick up a cheap one some time ago must have received generous rewards after destroying a snake city. The strength has improved greatly, and now it is estimated that he has the ability to carry an archmage head-on.

But it is one thing to be able to face the bar, and it is another thing to be able to win the bar and guarantee that you will not lose too much.

Unless the three of them join forces again to do it together.

"No, after they digest it, they will definitely continue to unite and do it together."

But Li Qing didn't worry too much, they were too far away and there was no competition for the time being.

When there is competition later, he may already have the strength to confront them head-on.

The giant eagle flew to a height of about 1000 meters above the target town and looked down. Under the light gray fog, you can roughly see the layout of the town, the figures on the city wall, and a huge ball of light hanging from the top of the tall magic tower to illuminate the surroundings. .

This magic tower can emit three kinds of war magic, and usually only keeps the light of civilization illuminating the surroundings, even if it finds him passing low over the city, it will not attack.

There was nothing special about the town. Li Qing turned around and went up the Great North River. Soon, he saw a huge city of snake people standing by the river in front of him.

The surface of the tall mage tower is surrounded by a powerful magical aura. If you focus on the mage tower from a distance, you can feel a strong threat coming.

There is a road along the river between the town and the city, and there are snake-man patrols passing by on the road.

The large land area between towns and cities is farmland, with a large number of snake villages scattered among them.

Flying away from the big river to the west for a certain distance, this large area is a plain, full of snake villages, and then flew [-] to [-] kilometers west and saw another town of snake people on the plain, which is already another The site of a snake noble.

Li Qing circled the small town and was about to return, when he suddenly saw a snake-man town not far from the town being besieged by a human army.

He looked at it with interest, and found that a group of apprentices under the name of an unknown mentor were killing the snake man.

He was not interested in observing, he just walked around in the sky and left.

Back at the base, Li Qing immediately issued a mobilization order to prepare to set off, and at the same time opened the Shenyu network to contact the mentor, and sent the news that he was going to attack the snake city.

Nie Yang froze for a moment when he received Li Qing's news, immediately opened the communication, and asked:
"Are you sure?"

Li Qing said with a smile:

"I'm sure, but it's not great. Just try it out. It's best if it succeeds. If it doesn't, it's okay."

"Generally speaking, at such a short distance, there is a high probability that the snake man archmage sitting in a city not far away will teleport over. Do you have the strength to resist an extraordinary archmage?"

Li Qing pondered for a while, and replied:

"With some certainty."

"Just some confidence? This is not a joke. You'd better have some confidence and the ability to retreat completely, otherwise I don't suggest you try it."

Li Qing pinched his eyebrows and said:

"There are a lot of certainties."

Nie Yang frowned, intending to continue persuading, but Li Qing seemed confident, which made him hesitate.

To be honest, if Li Qing can succeed, this wave of harvest is enough for him to quit immediately, and the ranking can also be ranked among the top three among all the apprentices of the six mentors after the training is over.

But if it fails.
After pondering for a while, he said:

"If you are sure, then try it, but before that, I will issue a notice on your behalf to tell everyone about your action."

"???"

Li Qing asked in surprise:

"What announcement, tell all the war lord apprentices that I want to attack this snake city?"

"Yes."

"why is that?"

"It's very simple. This is a tacit understanding between the mentors, and it is also an unspoken rule. Within one month after I announce it, other apprentices will be bound by their respective mentors and will not hold you back."

Li Qing was surprised:

"Is there such a thing?"

"Of course, you all have a default development scope, and you are not allowed to attack other people's alien aboriginals near God's Domain. Why can't we mentors?"

"Of course, each mentor only has two opportunities during the two-year development period. This time it will be used on you. I hope you will succeed."

Li Qing nodded seriously:

"I will!"

"Ok!"

Nie Yang nodded, and added another sentence before closing the communication:
"I'll make an announcement in a week, and you can start now and prepare for an extra week."

"Thank you tutor!"

After turning off the communication, Li Qing squeezed his chin and suddenly laughed.

Sure enough, it's good to be favored by the mentor. With this, it saves the worry of being left behind.

After that, Li Qing didn't have any ink marks, and started dispatching troops the next morning. An Erqiu led about [-] soldiers to guard the house, and the remaining troops of more than [-] assembled and set off.

Coming out of the primeval jungle and going down the river, it took almost four days to reach the target location.

The other side of the big river is only about one kilometer away from the snake town.

The huge army was quickly discovered by the working snake-man vassals on the other side of the river, and soon the snake-man town one kilometer away issued a piercing siren, which could be heard from a long distance away.

Li Qing ignored it and just ordered the troops to cross the river.

It was daytime for the snake people at this time, and many slave races who were farming in the farmland outside the town fled to the direction of the town in a panic because of the sound of the siren, and there were many farm tools thrown in a mess in the field.

When the [-] forwards led by Long Shou rushed out of the town, the gate of the Snakeman town was closed, and there were guards standing on the wall.

There is no communication for the time being. One is a human being and the other is a snake-human alien race. They cannot speak the language, so there is no room for communication at all.

Some people may be surprised, they have been in this fragment of the plane for half a year, and the total number of snake-man towns they have broken down is no less than ten. Why didn't the snake-man kingdom mobilize an army to encircle and suppress them?

The reason is actually very simple, because of the suppression of Zhanzheng College's top management.

This fragment of the plane was forcibly pulled from the void by the academy using the Blackstone Tower. Before they arrived, the academy used the Blackstone Tower to scan the entire plane inside and out, so they must have communicated with the ruler of the plane.

According to past experience, there is a high probability that Zhanzheng College has demonstrated its unmatched strength and reached an agreement with the Snakeman Kingdom in such a situation.

The specific agreement is not clear, but one thing is certain.

That is, the Snakeman Kingdom does not allow active mobilization of troops to encircle and suppress the apprentices, that is to say, unless the apprentices take the initiative to attack, they can fight back. If they do not take the initiative to attack, they are not allowed to mobilize troops to encircle and suppress the apprentices, even if they know where the apprentices' domain is.

The vanguard waited 200 meters away from the city wall, but Li Qing's main force did not rush there immediately, but began to dispatch troops after crossing the river.

Now this army has 550 infantrymen of all levels, 550 archers of all levels, 125 cavalry, all brought out, as well as a pyromancer who has been promoted to the second level, and 10 ogres.

The 550 infantry were divided into five infantry squadrons of 100 men each.

The 550 archers were likewise divided into five squadrons of 100 each.

The 125 cavalry were divided into two squadrons of 50 cavalry each.

The rest will be compiled into the Chinese Army, which will be adjusted according to the situation.

An infantry squadron and an archer squadron are combined into a combined squadron, a total of five combined squadrons.

Li Qing left the third, fourth and fifth combined squadrons by the river, and led the first and second combined squadrons and the Chinese cavalry to continue to set off.

Soon the troops rushed under the town of Snakeman. The Second United Squadron was divided into two, distributed on the left and right wings.

Getting ready, Li Qing measured the distance visually and prepared to put down the counterweight trebuchet.

There is no arrow tower, and the troops are not moved forward.

There is a magic tower in the town, which can emit the war spell 'magic lightning'. If you get too close, a magic lightning will definitely kill you.

He was going to smash open the city wall with a trebuchet from a distance, make a few more gaps, and then attack in one breath.

This is also to delay time, to see if the Snakeman city not far away will send support, if it is sent before the full-scale attack, it will happen to be able to fight outside.

With previous experience, Li Qing had already determined the specific attack distance of the counterweight trebuchet at this time.

It is not a simple distance, which has been determined long ago, but a stone throwing distance under the influence of different geology, terrain angles, stone sizes and other factors.

So now before he places the trebuchet, he first takes out a ten-meter-square and one-meter-thick ultra-thick solid wood board and puts it on the ground, then adjusts the height and level, determines the position according to the angle, and then places the trebuchet on the board.

Seven minutes later, with a dull sound, a stone of several hundred kilograms flew up, drawing an arc in the air and flying towards the city wall.

"Boom!" With a loud noise, a large hole was smashed out on the city wall, and countless rubble flew.

The distance of the counterweight trebuchet is affected by the size of the stone. The two reinforced version of the counterweight trebuchet manufactured by Li Qing can theoretically throw [-] kilograms of stones, but the projection distance should not be too far.

There is a magic tower sitting in the town in front of me. It is easy to be bombarded by war magic if it is too far away. It can only be opened with small stones, and then slowly grind.

Fortunately, the stones used are all standard stones that he combined with the space in his palm. The size, weight, shape, and texture are all exactly the same, which can guarantee that even if it is cast a hundred times in a row, it will hit the same target.

So even though the stone was not big, after throwing more than a dozen stones in the same position in a row, the city wall was still smashed open by him.

Opening two gaps in one breath, Li Qing did not order to attack, but continued to bombard.

Half an hour later, the second round opened four gaps.

Li Qing frowned and remained silent for a while, before ordering to continue.

"Don't support it?"

He was a little surprised.

At this time Xie Zhu also came over and asked in a low voice:

"Boss, it's almost an hour now. It stands to reason that if there is support, it should have arrived earlier, let's."

Li Qing waved his hand and said:
"Wait a little longer, and make two more gaps. If there is no support, we will attack the city directly."

"If you don't come, don't come, and you can gain something if you don't come. If you don't come, let me capture ten towns in one go. It won't be worse than capturing one city, and the risk is even smaller."

(End of this chapter)